Professors from USA, Australia and Finland have read lectures in PSU

A series of lectures have been read at PSU by foreign professors in the period of October to December 2015.

Gamini Sumanasekera, University of Louisville, KY, (USA)
Lecture 1. Basic nanofabrication techniques
Lecture 2. Basic materials and methods: Spectroscopy
Lecture 3. Basics of renewable energy

Ipek Kurtboke, University of the Sunshine Coast (Australia)
Lecture 1. Industrial potential of microorganisms of marine and extreme ecosystems
Lectures 2–3. Bio opening of new antibiotics and biologically active substances. Agrobiological problems and biocontrol of pests and plant diseases
Lectures 4–5. Bioremediation. Microbial enzymes and biofuels. Management of solid and liquid waste

Olfa Nasraoui, University of Louisville, KY, (USA)
Lecture 1. Overview of machine learning
Lecture 2. Web Information Retrieval
Lecture 3. Link and Social Network Analysis

Tuomo Kauranne, Lappeenranta University of Technology, Lappeenranta (Finland)
Lecture 1. General introduction to laser scanning technology
Lecture 2. Airbornelaserscannninginforestinventory(especiallythetheoryofthearea-basedmethod)
Lecture 3. Implementation and experiences from the Finnish practical forest inventories
Lecture 4. Softwaresolutionsforlidar-basedforestinventory(=arbolidar), ouldalsobeapracticaldemonstration